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Full Issue 4,500 were wounded in the violence. Later they specified that 11 people died, 723 were injured and 159 went missing. The raid on the camp near the main Western Sahara town of El Ayoun housing thousands of Saharawis, who moved there to protest against their living conditions, was carried out a few hours before a new round of talks between the Polisario and the Moroccan government started near New York which went ahead despite the violence. Although the versions of the two sides conflict and there was no independent corroboration of one story rather than another, it seems the Moroccan authorities decided to clear the Gdeim Izik tent camp which had been set up three weeks earlier to protest living conditions in the Western Sahara. When news of the police action in the camp—which allegedly included spraying with water cannon—spread outside, riots broke out in El Ayoun and the surrounding area. The security services blocked the road to the camp to prevent supporters reaching it and clashes broke out. The UN Security Council ‘‘deplored the violence’’, which has put attention on a decades old conflict largely pushed out of international headlines. A council statement expressed backing for the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2010
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2010.03544.x
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4,500 were wounded in the violence. Later they specified that 11 people died, 723 were injured and 159 went missing. The raid on the camp near the main Western Sahara town of El Ayoun housing thousands of Saharawis, who moved there to protest against their living conditions, was carried out a few hours before a new round of talks between the Polisario and the Moroccan government started near New York which went ahead despite the violence. Although the versions of the two sides conflict and there was no independent corroboration of one story rather than another, it seems the Moroccan authorities decided to clear the Gdeim Izik tent camp which had been set up three weeks earlier to protest living conditions in the Western Sahara. When news of the police action in the camp—which allegedly included spraying with water cannon—spread outside, riots broke out in El Ayoun and the surrounding area. The security services blocked the road to the camp to prevent supporters reaching it and clashes broke out. The UN Security Council ‘‘deplored the violence’’, which has put attention on a decades old conflict largely pushed out of international headlines. A council statement expressed backing for the

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